Recordando al Shimmy Club: Sociabilidad afroargentina en la segunda mitad del siglo XX (1950s-1970s)

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09/2023
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social
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Horizontes Antropológicos
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0104-7183
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1806-9983
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En este trabajo describo cómo lentamente aprendí, a principios de la década de 1990, que el candombe afroargentino había sobrevivido de manera muy vital hasta entrada la década de 1970 en los bailes del Shimmy Club. Mediante una breve autoetnografía, muestro el grado de invisibilización que tenían los afroargentinos y su cultura durante las décadas de 1980 y 1990 y señalo cómo los bailes del Shimmy Club fueron vitales en la persistencia y transmisión de la cultura negra y en la construcción de una identidad colectiva afroargentina. En la segunda parte del trabajo proporciono una variedad de testimonios de hombres y mujeres afroargentinos/as que entre las décadas de 1950 y 1960 participaron de estos bailes. A través de un amplio y polifónico registro de recuerdos, los/as propios/as afroargentinos/as nos transmiten la relevancia emocional que estos bailes tuvieron en su vida –una experiencia social que los académicos generalmente ignoraban o menospreciaban–.
In this paper I describe how I slowly learned, in the early 1990s, that Afro-Argentine candombe had survived in a very vital way into the 1970s at the Shimmy Club dances. Through a brief autoethnography, I show the degree of invisibility that Afro-Argentines and their culture had during the 1980s and 1990s, and I point out how the Shimmy Club dances were vital in the persistence and transmission of black culture and in the construction of an Afro-Argentine collective identity. In the second part of the paper, I provide a wide variety of testimonies from Afro-Argentine men and women who participated in these dances between the 1950s and 1960s. Through a polyphonic record of memories, the Afro-Argentine participants themselves convey to us the emotional relevance that these dances had in their lives – a social experience that academics generally ignored or underestimated.
In this paper I describe how I slowly learned, in the early 1990s, that Afro-Argentine candombe had survived in a very vital way into the 1970s at the Shimmy Club dances. Through a brief autoethnography, I show the degree of invisibility that Afro-Argentines and their culture had during the 1980s and 1990s, and I point out how the Shimmy Club dances were vital in the persistence and transmission of black culture and in the construction of an Afro-Argentine collective identity. In the second part of the paper, I provide a wide variety of testimonies from Afro-Argentine men and women who participated in these dances between the 1950s and 1960s. Through a polyphonic record of memories, the Afro-Argentine participants themselves convey to us the emotional relevance that these dances had in their lives – a social experience that academics generally ignored or underestimated.
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